Students heard lectures on energy, environmentalism, water quality, and climate change. They visited a refuge for endangered manatees.

Here’s what students had to say:

“As someone who goes to a very progressive university, hearing the facts behind the scientific argument about climate change and what our side – the facts that we have that backs up our argument, is going to be really useful when I take it back to campus,” explained Marcus Maldonado of Tulane University in New Orleans.

“I really liked the water quality talk, I thought it was super interesting,” said Abby Draiss, a junior at the Ohio State University on Captain Travis Thompson’s discussion on how to solve issues like Red Tide and invasive species to Florida’s ecosystem.

“I found [James Taylor’s] talk very interesting,” said Sarah Knickerbocker, a law student at Syracuse University. “He has a lot of knowledge about hydraulic fracturing, in particular how it pertains to New York and upstate New York.”

“I’m very excited to take back what I learned to campus,” said Maggie Anders, a junior at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.

David Bucarey, a sophomore at George Mason University in northern Virginia said: “One of my favorite topics was about…how hunting was actually helping keep extinction away from animals when the media makes it seem all the time like ‘oh hunting is bad and you’re gonna kill everything’ when in reality its a very good tool to use to conserve animals.”

Every day CFACT student leaders share the facts the Left fears with their classmates. They stand up for students rights to free speech and fair play.

Facts should have a place in higher education. When CFACT’s on campus they do.

Authors

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president.
For over 30 years, Craig has provided expertise to a wide range of government, academic, media, and industry forums. His organization, the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, boasts a large grassroots membership base, features over 50 scientific and academic experts, and is widely heralded as a leader in the free market, think tank community in Washington, D.C. In addition to being a frequent guest on radio talk shows, Rucker has also written extensively and appeared in such media outlets as CNN, the BBC, USA Today, New York Times, Russia Today, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, among many others.
Rucker was a co-producer of the award-winning film “Climate Hustle,” which was the #1 box-office film in America during its one night showing in 2016. He also has primary responsibility for building CFACT’s “Collegians" program on more than 50 campuses across the U.S., spearheads the creation of model demonstration eco-projects in impoverished villages in Latin America and Africa, and has led delegations to some 20 major United Nations conferences, including those in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Rio de Janeiro, and Warsaw, to name a few. Rucker has a wife and four sons, and currently resides in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

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